Example Sentences

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“I contemplate with great satisfaction the pains that will wrench his little pigeon heart when he hears that all my debts are paid,” Wallace wrote of one of them, his brother-in-law.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

Lane will wrench open his eyelids and watch the waning minutes of "Monday Night Football" if, and only if, his beloved Redskins are playing.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2012

The need to balance population growth against its social cost will wrench the thinking of bankers, storekeepers and politicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Then, John Louder, it behooves the English people to speak their minds at once, lest they have fastened upon them a monarch who will wrench from them their religious liberties."

From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by Carter, F. A. (Freeland A.)

You bend, Mara, like the little blue harebells, and so the storm goes over you; but he will stand up against it, and it will wrench and shatter him.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher